Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Ministers Betray the Black Community by Defending Race-Baiting Group - Well
this WAS going to be the leading post in today's news briefs. It is
something I wrote then forgot about. The basic gist - any black minister
who supports the exploitation of his/her people deserves a scathing so
vicious that it would take the paint off of walls. I hope I did a good
job here.

Monday, April 16, 2012

An April 15th Patriot’s Day rally on Boston Common sponsored by the “North Shore Tea Party” drew a spirited turnout, but was not what organizers planned. Featured speakers Scott Lively and Brian Camenker, who lead the two Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate groups in Massachusetts, shifted the focus of the event away from the fiscal issues the “tea party” movement purports to emphasize to the social issues many Republicans would rather avoid. Lively is best known for his role in promoting the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” pending in the Ugandan Parliament, which would impose the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” Camenker stands out for his strident opposition to safe schools programming designed to reduce bullying and harassment of LGBT youth. The controversy Lively and Camenker touched off resonated even before the rally, as Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson, a former Governor of New Mexico, cancelled his plans to appear at the event.
A crowd of approximately 75 tea party activists gathered round the bandstand on the Common to hear speakers representing groups like “Show ID to Vote,” “Newsbusters” and the Mass. Republican Assembly. From the outset about 20 protestors from Join the Impact MA stood along the edge of the surrounding sidewalk quietly holding signs condemning Lively and Camenker for their homophobic advocacy. Just before Lively’s and Camenker’s turns at the podium came, roughly 100 exuberant protestors from the Occupy movement charged onto the scene chanting loudly and waving signs. The din became an uproar as Lively took the microphone. In his speech, Lively blasted conservatives who would minimize the importance of social issues. Then he denounced LGBT rights activists as “fascists” who were intent on destroying civilization. Camenker met with similar pushback as he criticized the work of GLSEN for allegedly promoting homosexual recruitment of public school students—in reference to the group’s efforts to prevent anti-LGBT bullying. Lively and Camenker were loudly booed, and much of their speech-making was drowned out by Occupy chants and “mic check” counterpoint.
Not all counter-protestors joined the chanting. I argued that Lively and Camenker should be allowed to speak, both out of respect for freedom of expression and because they tend to discredit the opposition to LGBT equality when their extremist views are publicized. Yet the passions these two hate group leaders stir are difficult to contain. Tea Party organizers learned that giving a platform to anti-gay bigotry effectively drowns out any other message they may seek to propagate. The Boston Police kept the peace while allowing everyone an opportunity to be heard. By the time anti-government activist Carla Howell took the podium after Camenker, most of the “tea party” attendees had frittered away, the momentum of the rally dissipated.

Producers of KONY 2012 Are Cozy With Organization Linked to Uganda's Notorious 'Kill the Gays' Bill

NEW YORK -
Truth Wins Out expressed deep concern today that Invisible Children
(IC), the non-profit made famous by its recent KONY 2012 video, shares
profound ties with The Family (aka The Fellowship), the secretive
fundamentalist organization widely believed to be behind Uganda's
infamous 'Kill the Gays' bill, which if passed would harshly punish LGBT
people for the "crime" of homosexuality.

An
exhaustive report released today by researcher Bruce Wilson reveals
alarming social and professional associations between the two groups.
This includes a network of elite evangelical indoctrination centers in
Uganda, which groom Christian youth for future leadership roles in the
country. The new report comes at a critical time, one day before
Invisible Children releases its much-anticipated video sequel to KONY
2012.

"Invisible
Children has portrayed itself as a group of idealists, but new evidence
suggests that they may be ideologues who are engaging in stealth
evangelism," said Truth Wins Out's Executive Director Wayne Besen.
"Their profound ties to a notorious group like The Family raise alarming
questions about the group's genuine motives, actual goals, and real
intentions."

The Family/Fellowship
is a secretive U.S.-based brotherhood of international political and
business leaders. Founded in 1935, its growing political clout was
brought to widespread public notice with a 2002 Los Angeles Times report
by Lisa Getter, then exposed in subsequent articles and two books by
journalist Jeff Sharlet: The Family and C Street: The Fundamentalist
Threat to American Democracy.

At
least two of Invisible Children's programs have involved collaboration
with The Fellowship and its members. By 2007, Invisible Children was
described by both Fellowship and Invisible Children staffers as having
partially merged its developing school and mentoring programs in Uganda
with The Fellowship's Ugandan educational and leadership training
system, which works to raise up a cadre of elite Jesus-centered leaders
who will transform their nation along "Biblical" lines - with one
apparent objective being the categorical elimination of homosexuality.

The
stated philosophy of Invisible Children's Ugandan educational programs
closely mirrors the stated philosophy behind The Fellowship's
Cornerstone Leadership academies. Neither program seeks to maximize
educational opportunities for large numbers of Ugandans. Rather, both
programs foster small numbers of exceptionally talented students
selected from at-risk populations; both programs also state explicitly
that their goal is to raise up a generation of Ugandan leaders who will
transform their nation.

Toward
that end, both programs employ mentors who are paired with individual
students and provide a crucial quasi-parental support system. Further,
both mentoring programs have been supervised by Ugandan Fellowship
member Paul Lukwiya, now Education Director for The Fellowship's Ugandan
leadership training schools.

In
Spring 2007 - little more than a year and a half after the Invisible
Children nonprofit was launched - Paul Lukwiya is reported to have
traveled with IC members to the United States, where he spoke before an
April 28, 2007 Invisible Children Seattle rally.

"Invisible
Children's connection to The Fellowship's network provides an
explanation of IC's early access to internationally powerful
politicians; less than a year after the nonprofit was launched in 2005,
Invisible Children had already gained political backing, from U.S.
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, both
important Fellowship members," according to Wilson's research.

Jason
Russell and other top Invisible Children leaders also work with Raan
and Shea Parton, the co-founders of Apolis Global, a California
for-profit boutique-clothing brand. The Apolis Global co-founders are
alumni of The Fellowship's National Youth Leadership Forum.

"Given
the incestuous ties, it is sometimes difficult to tell where Invisible
Children ends and The Family begins," said TWO's Wayne Besen. "What is
vexing is that both groups rightfully despise the murderous actions of
Joseph Kony, but appear to be comfortably in the pocket of Uganda's
oppressive fundamentalist Christian dictator Yoweri Museveni. If these
groups truly stand for freedom and liberty, it is difficult to
understand their cozy relationship with the Ugandan strong man."

Recommended Reading

Veteran Ben LaGuer

Let me finally return to Dwight Macdonald and the responsibility of intellectuals. Macdonald quotes an interview with a death-camp paymaster who burst into tears when told that the Russians would hang him. "Why should they? What have I done?" he asked. Macdonald concludes: "Only those who are willing to resist authority themselves when it conflicts too intolerably with their personal moral code, only they have the right to condemn the death-camp paymaster." The question, "What have I done?" is one that we may well ask ourselves, as we read each day of fresh atrocities in Vietnam—as we create, or mouth, or tolerate the deceptions that will be used to justify the next defense of freedom.

– Chomsky, The Responsibility of Intellectuals 1967

Words to Remember:

"Juris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere; alterum non laedere; suum cuique tribuere"(These are the precepts of the law: To live honorably; to hurt nobody; to render to every one his due.)

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution

Never Forgotten; Sadly Missed

Lawrence King

GLBT Legends

Paul McMahon and Ralph Hodgdon in 2007

"If you want to be important -- wonderful. If you want to be recognized -- wonderful. If you want to be great -- wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness." -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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